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dc.contributor.author | Cassar, Paul | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-02T10:25:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-02T10:25:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1975 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cassar, P. (1975). Relics of phrenology in Malta. The St. Luke`s Hospital Gazette, 10(1), 14-22. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/16153 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The cerebral cortex had been at the centre of studies of certain physiologists such as Franz Joseph Gall who put forward the assumption that the skull was an exact cast of the underlying cortex. In Malta, the impact of phrenology is first shown in the initiatives of the editor of the Malta Times (1841). His aim was to induce the Maltese “to think on subjects relating to the mind” and he asserted that he was the first person to “instruct them by the good method of public lectures”. In announcing his course of lectures in the press, Mr. Richardson appealed to the public "for the loan of any busts, craniums and drawings of heads of such remarkable characters as will illustrate his lectures." Apart from the literary evidence, two relics of the phrenological period in Malta (1838-62) have survived. These are two human skulls with the locations of the various "organs" mapped out and labelled on their external surfaces. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | The St. Luke`s Hospital Gazette | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Phrenology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Phrenology -- Malta -- History -- 19th century | en_GB |
dc.subject | Brain -- Localization of functions | en_GB |
dc.subject | Neurology -- History | en_GB |
dc.title | Relics of phrenology in Malta | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | TSLHG, Volume 10, Issue 1 TSLHG, Volume 10, Issue 1 |
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Relics of phrenology in Malta.pdf | Published for the Consultant Staff Committee, St. Luke`s Hospital, Malta and the Medical and Dental Surgery Faculties of the Royal University of Malta. | 1.19 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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